Re: I want to scan a doc. then open in a writable format



Start by reading whatever documentation came with your scanner. Specifically
you want to read the part about OCR - optical character recognition. That's
what makes your documents a text document instead of a picture of a
document.

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



"Wesley kyle" <Wesley kyle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:B1893EE5-3233-4465-96E0-D654411CA00D@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I would like to learn how to scan mult. doc and thubnail them together in a
> writable format so I can type in the nesisary info and print out a
> complete
> doc. sorry I am a bad speller.
>


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